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Evacuation of British Tourists From Egypt to Start Friday - British Envoy

© AP Photo / Thomas HartwellA tourist talks to staff from the British Embassy as other tourists wait in line at the security gate before the check-in counter at Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, south Sinai, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 6, 2015
A tourist talks to staff from the British Embassy as other tourists wait in line at the security gate before the check-in counter at Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, south Sinai, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 - Sputnik International
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According to UK ambassador to Egypt, UK-bound flights from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to evacuate British tourists will resume on Friday.

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CAIRO (Sputnik) UK-bound flights from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to evacuate British tourists will resume on Friday, the UK ambassador to Egypt said.

"Sharm el-Sheikh: the flights returning to the UK to be resumed on Friday," John Casson wrote on the Twitter page of the British Embassy in Cairo.

Over 7,000 British tourists are currently stranded in the popular resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after all UK flights to and from the local airport were suspended. London insists that those being evacuated leave their baggage behind for it to be delivered later on a separate flight.

Earlier, Egyptian Minister of Civil Aviation Husam Kamal said 17 flights with British tourists failed to arrive in Sharm el-Sheikh on Thursday.

On Saturday, a Russia-operated Airbus A321, en route from Egypt's resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, crashed in the Sinai Peninsula. All 224 people on board were killed in what has become the largest civil aviation disaster in Russian and Soviet history.

A variety of versions of the cause of the air crash, from a technical problem to a terrorist attack, have prompted some European states to halt fights to the Egyptian resort.

In particular, on Wednesday, the UK government said they had concerns that the Russian passenger plane might have been downed by a bomb and suspended all UK flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh airport.

Moscow maintains that while no theory on the cause of the plane crash can be excluded, it is too early to make any conclusions until the results of the official investigation have been published.

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